Box Office: ‘TRON’ HITS THE SKIDS WITH $ 33.5M OPENING, ‘ROOFMAN’ NO. 2 AT $ 8 Million

Disney’s Reboot TRON: Ares Malfuncyded Badly in Its Box Office Debut, Coming in Well Begind Expectations with A Domestic Opening of $ 33.5 Million from 4.000 Theaters. Unless It Can Solve Its Problem Quickly, It Will Once and For All End Heps of Rebooting A Sci-Fi Franchise That Began More More Four Decdes agades agen what the FIRST FILM BECAME A CULT CULT.

Overseas-WHERE The SCI-FI GENRE IS AN EVER HARDER SELL- Ares Also Disappointed with A Debut of $ 27 Million for A Global Start of $ 60.5 Million. IT unfurled everywhere Save for China, Whore It Opens Next Weekend.

Heading Into The Weekend, The Big-Budget Event Pic Had Been Tracing To Open to $ 40 Million to $ 45 Million Domestically Before Marketing. The Threequel, WHICH SPENT A DECADE IN DEVELOPMENT, OPENS 15 YEARS AFTER TRON: Legacy Started Off in Theaters With $ 44 Million on Its Way to Earning $ 409.9.9 Million Globally, not Adjusted for Inflation. Ares Was Shepherded by Former Disney Exney Exec Sean Bailey WHEN SERVING as Head of the Disney’s Live-Ection Studio.

The Hope Now Is That Solid Audence Scores Can Make Up for Decides Mixed Reviews. ITS Current Critics’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes is 57 Percent, While the Audence Ranking is Much Better at 87 Percent. And it Got Four Out of Five Stars on Posttrak.

Norwegian Disney Vet Joachim RØnning Directs the Third Film, WHICH STARS JARED LTO as the Eponymous Program, Ares, Greta Lee as Eve Kim, Ceo of Encom Start, and Evan Peters As Baddie Julian Dillinger. The pic’s Net Production Budget is at Least $ 180 Million.

Another New Majoor Studio Offering This Weekend is Miramax and Paramount’s Romantic Crime-Caper Comedy RoofmanStarring Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst. Derek Cianfrance Directed The Pic, Who-Co-Stars Lakeith Stanfield, Juno Temple and Peter Dinklage.

Roofman CAME IN THE LOW END OF EXPECTIONS WITH A $ 8 MILLION OPENING AGAINST A MODEST $ 19 Budget Production Budget (Tracking Had IT DEBUTING AT $ 8 Million To $ 10 Million). Miramax Produced and Financed the Film, whochh hoped to serve as Counter-Programming for Females not interested in TRON or the Myriad of Male-Skewing Films Dominating the Marquee. SO FAR, However, More Males Than Females Areaing Up to See The Film, Thought That Could Cangs on Saturday and Sunday.

Unlike TRONIT Boasts Strong Reviews, While Audience Exits Are Relating Similar. It’s Rotten Tomatoes Critics’ Score Is Presently 85 Percent, While The Audence Score Is 84 Percent. Both Films Received A B+ FROM POLING Service CineMascore.

Bassed on a true story, Roofman Follows the Adventures of An Army Veteran and Struggling Father Who Turns to Robbing McDonald’s Restaurants by Cutting Hols in Their Roofs, Earning Him The Nickname Roofman. After escaping prison, he Secretly Lives Inside A Toys “R” US FOR SIX MONHS, SURVIVING Undetted While Planning His Next Move, But His Double Life Begins to Unravel.

Another New Nationwide Offering is Soul of Firefrom Sony’s Faith-Based Affirm Label. The MOVIE EARNED AN UNDERWHELMING $ 3 MILLION OPENING FOR A SIXTH-PLACE FINISH. The Good News: The Movie Reportedly Cost A Net $ 3 Million to Produce and Earned an a CinemaScore. It is Doing Best in America’s Heartland and the South.

At the Specialty Box Office, Amazon Mgm Studios Is Going The Platform With Luca Guadagnino’s Psychological Thriller After the huntStarring Julia Roberts. It’s Paying Off So Far; The Movie Opened In 17 Theaters for A Promising Per-Location AVERAGE OF $ 25,745. The Awards Conender, whoh also stars ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny, Made the Rounds at the Fall Fall Film Film Film of Film Film Fallm Fallm Fallm Fallm Fall Apart Yale’s Philosophy Department.

The Score for After the hunt is from trent rezonor and atticus ross, Who are on Double Duty, Having Also Done the Score for TRON: Ares (In the Latter they credited by their Band’s Name, Nine Inch Nails).

Among Holdovers, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After AnotherStarring Leonardo Dicaprio, Is Looking at A Third-Plalace Finish with An Estimated Weekend Gross of $ 6.8 Million to $ 7 Million, A Drop of AROUND 40 PERCENT. Many Box Office Pundits Are Stumped That High-Profile Awards Contender from Warner Bros. Isn’t Holding in Stronger After Earning A COVETED A+ CineMascore, But The Film’s Fate Is Far From Being Decided (It Is Only In Its Third Outing).

DWAYNE Johnson-Starrer The smashing machine Appears to be collapsing in its Second Weekend After Getting Snubbed By Audiences, Despite Solid Reviews. The A24 Pic Could Drop Nearly 70 Percent to $ 1.8 Million for a Paltry 10-Day Domestic Total of $ 9.8 Million and An Eightth-Place Finish. The MOVIE, WHICH KICKED OFF ITS AWARDS CAMPAIGN WITH A SPLASHY World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Marks Johnson’s Firt Forage Into Oscar Territory. The Benny Safdie-Directed Pic Cost $ 50 Million to Produce Before Marketing, A High Price-Tag for An Indie Pic.

More to come.